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Sooty

Sooty \Soot"y\, a. [Compar. Sootier; superl. Sootiest.] [AS. s?tig. See Soot.]

  1. Of or pertaining to soot; producing soot; soiled by soot. ``Fire of sooty coal.''
    --Milton.

  2. Having a dark brown or black color like soot; fuliginous; dusky; dark. ``The grisly legions that troop under the sooty flag of Acheron.''
    --Milton.

    Sooty albatross (Zo["o]l.), an albatross ( Ph[oe]betria fuliginosa) found chiefly in the Pacific Ocean; -- called also nellie.

    Sooty tern (Zo["o]l.), a tern ( Sterna fuliginosa) found chiefly in tropical seas.

Sooty

Sooty \Soot"y\, v. t. To black or foul with soot. [R.]

Sootied with noisome smoke.
--Chapman.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sooty

mid-13c., from soot + -y (2). Related: Sootily; sootiness.

Wiktionary
sooty
  1. 1 of, relating to, or producing soot 2 soiled with soot 3 of the color of soot v

  2. To blacken or make dirty with soot.

WordNet
sooty
  1. adj. of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal [syn: coal-black, jet, jet-black, pitchy]

  2. [also: sootiest, sootier]

Wikipedia
Sooty (TV series)

Sooty is a British children's television series that was produced for three series, that aired on ITV from 5 November 2001 to 6 January 2004. It replaced Sooty Heights, but remained the same setup of Sooty and the gang running a hotel, which saw a major re-vamp and later a change of name to 'Hotel Sooty'. It was presented by Richard Cadell and Vicki Lee Taylor.

Sooty (gene)

A horse coat color that has the Sooty trait is characterized by black or darker hairs mixed into a horse's coat, typically concentrated along the topline of the horse and less prevalent on the underparts. Sootiness is presumed to be heritable, though the precise genetic mechanism, or series of mechanisms, is not well-understood.

In most cases, sooty coats exhibit pronounced countershading; the dorsal region is darker than the ventral region. However, some forms seem to produce darker lower parts. The "false dorsal" or "countershading dorsal" can mimic the dorsal stripe associated with dun horses and is associated with the sooty trait. The most extensive expression of sooty produces a dark, often-dappled cast oriented down from the topline. Many horses with the sooty trait have a darker mask on the bony parts of the face.

It was once thought that the sooty trait was responsible for turning chestnut into liver chestnut, however it is not known to evenly darken the coat. The sooty trait is responsible for many dark bays and has a particularly pronounced effect on buckskins and palominos.

Although this trait has been called the "sooty gene", similar coat-darkening conditions studied in mice suggest that coat darkening is a polygenic trait. Just as in horses, the degree of sootiness in mice varies widely; some individuals have darker hairs that form a dorsal line, while others have extensive sootiness throughout. A statistical analysis of 1369 offspring of five Franches-Montagnes stallions indicated that darker shades of chestnut and bay might follow a recessive mode of inheritance.

Horses without any sooty effect are termed "clear-coated."

Sooty (disambiguation)

Sooty is a British puppet and TV character popular in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and other countries.

Sooty may also refer to:

  • Sooty (coat), a horse coat color
  • Sooty (TV series), a British children's television series
  • Sooty Jones (20th century), bass guitarist
  • a nickname for British property developer Kuldip Singh Dhillon
Sooty

Sooty is a glove puppet, created by Harry Corbett in 1948, a fictional bear that appears on British television. The children's television show that bears his name has continued in various forms since the 1950s and, according to Guinness World Records, is the longest-running children's programme in the UK.

Sooty (2011 TV series)

Sooty is a British children's slapstick television series that airs on CITV. It is the first new series to feature Sooty since the last series ended in 2004, and the first since Richard Cadell bought the rights to the brand in 2008.

The series sees Richard starting a new job as a 'Mr Fix-It' at Slater's family holiday park in a British coastal resort, with Sooty, Sweep and Soo always ready and willing to help him.

Usage examples of "sooty".

In response to his gesture, eyes now fully formed and ablaze, the two clouds of sooty vapor that had been hovering impatiently by his steel-booted feet ballooned to the size of black buffalo as they sped gleefully away from the dais to intercept the impudent, foolhardy human.

She sniffed it, grinned, then tucked it under the bib of her sooty white apron.

His native town was enveloped in smoke, and on the spot where his home had been, where he had grown up and where his mother had lived, reared a bare, sooty, monstrous chimney, like this one here.

Sooty, suffocating flames enveloped the tank, but the crew remained in action.

I looked up doubtfully, and there, sure enough, on the roof of the sepulchre, was a peculiarly unctuous and sooty mark, three feet or more across.

When the opportunity came he broke off and with great effort drew himself into his study where he swore at the walls and damned Flack for a sooty nigger.

A nest of hawfinch chirped nearby, tucked away beneath the chin of a sooty gargoyle.

Kane and I were sitting on his side steps overlooking his urban garden of sooty dirt, broken glass and ironweed as he smoked his evening cigarette.

Sooty roof to scaffold platform, Jilly folded in to the church with the expectation of finding the third gunman and kicking him in the head, the gut, the gonads, or any other kickable surface that might be presented to her.

Frank Barber had gone out to meet one of his sooty friends and only Levet was at the fireside.

Unavoidably he broke the adult growths from time to time and was showered with sooty black, or liverish pink, or ugly red and yellow dust, or was enveloped in clouds or spores.

Now, its sooty remains must lie in the unraked ashes that drifted over the ruins of her home.

Up and up the dreadful threat would fly, booming and echoing through all the narrow, dark and twisty flues, until it found out Barnacle, exactly as Mister Roberts had divined, squatting in some sooty nook and, if there was room enough to move his arms, a-picking of his nose.

Soft arms were flung around his neck, his sweaty, sooty face was smothered in plump and delicious kisses.

In the hall of his palace where, under the sooty rafters, there hung the heads, pelts, and horns of wild beasts, he held feasts to which all the harpers of Alca and of the neighbouring islands were invited, and he himself used to join in singing the praises of the heroes.